The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-08-17
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.


Lace dresses are exceedingly popular
this season.
Stylish young ladies are favoring the
gypsy bonnet.
Fine steel embroidery is fashionable
and expensive.
Queen Victoria's favorite dessert is
tapioca pudding.
Large wells which entirely envelop the
hats are very stylish
Ribbon trimmings are much used on
lace and muslin dresses.
Embroidery takes the place Of lace in
trimming all cotton fabrics.
The Bishop sleeve is prominent feat
ure in some of the new gowns.
Louisville has more rcd-headed girls
than any other city in the Union.
Two pairs of strings, very long but
narrow, are put on reception bonnets.
Garfield County, CAL, has 1, 100 un-
married men and twenty eight unmarried
women.
There are fans now made of imported
grasses, which are almost as fragrant as
sandal wood.
All sorts of odd and eccentric designs
are seen in jewels. The odder they are
the more priced they will be.
Jetted tulle is one of the most popular
fabrics for summer wear in millinery,
and in black it makes elegant effects.
Most graceful are the hats made of
chantilly, with broad dropping brim
and graceful posy of bright blossoms.
Josie Franklin and Victoria Byrnes,
two American girls, have been licensed
as telegraph operators at San Luis Potosi
the first in Mexico.
California has Woman's Silk Associa-
tion, and, like the one in Philadelphia,
is earnestly at work to establish the raw
silk industry in this country.
Mrs. Arumbagh, of Leroy, H., is
making fortune raising spring chickens.
She has marketed 216 dozen this season
and has as many more about ready.
Mrs. David Geyer, of Richmond, Ind,
took her horse and buggy and industri-
ously brought in voters to the polls, there
by electing her husband Councilman by
five votes
The Princess of Wales is this year for
the first time on exhibition at the Royal
Society of Painters, in water colors. She
sends dainty picture of Windsor, seen
from the river.
The success of the most magnificent
costume depends Il great deal on the
wearer. The highest compliment fashion
critics can pay womanhs: "She looks as if
she knew how to wear" her toilets.
Soft cloth hats in English walking hat
shape, with sloping b own and rolled
brim, are imported by New York hatters
and tailors for ladies' wear with travel
ing costumes AMI for boating or or
tennis.
The narcissus, always a favorlte flower
with the English, is now seen in some of
the white enamel jewelry so fashionable
this season. A brooch in this design has
a diamond on its cup; all the rest was in
white and yellow enamel.
Portiers of Mikado reed and colored
beads are being approached in point of
popularity by hangings of tennis or ham
mock net, to which are pinned cones,
burrs, nut-pods, shells, butterflies and
other mementocs of forest or sea side
life.
Although faille franchise and faille duch-
esse are the favorite materials for rich
toilets, stripes of satin or moire are used
beneath the beaded ornaments on these
dresses, is these garnitures show to bet
ter advantage mounted on a glossy foun-
dation.v
Hairdressing is becoming higher, and
causes CONSERVATION and astonishment as
to where it will stop. A general dcScrip-
tion would be a fat coil pinned to the
summit of the crown, from which springs
protuberance which it would be DIM
cult to eXplain-N Nesuvius crowned with
smoke is one of the SMILES applied to.
A taffeta petticOat, with many flounces
makes pretty effect when worn with a
Swiss muslin embroidery A bertha made
of the same Swiss completes charming
costume for any dress occasion in the sum
mer. A parasol corresponding with the
petticoat is carried with this costume, if
worn at lawn party, a large bow deco
rating the top.
The New York Graphic tells of an
amusing incident which happened at a
very swell wedding in that city. After
the minister had pronounced the fateful
words the friends of the bride all clus-
tered round her to offer their congratula-
tions, and the groom, overcome for the
moment in the general excitement of the
event, turned to her and grasping her
hand exclaimed: 81 wish you very
happy New Year. A general smile went
round, and the embarrassed benedict was
hurried away before he could do further
damage.